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Jason
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Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject:
Divx & Xvid |
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I've just bought a Divx compatible DVD player & burned some Xvid encoded
movies to a DVD, the movies play OK but they slow down every 10 seconds or
so for a short period. It's a little anoying but I'm wondering if the
problem lies with the fact the movies are Xvid rather than Divx, I don't
have any Divx files to check at the moment, does anyone have an idea? BTW
the player is a Skyworth 3650, bought from WHSmith in the UK.
TIA, Jase.
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Billy Joe
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Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:
Re: Divx & Xvid |
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Jason wrote:
| Quote: | I've just bought a Divx compatible DVD player & burned some
Xvid encoded movies to a DVD, the movies play OK but they
slow down every 10 seconds or so for a short period. It's a
little anoying but I'm wondering if the problem lies with the
fact the movies are Xvid rather than Divx, I don't have any
Divx files to check at the moment, does anyone have an idea?
BTW the player is a Skyworth 3650, bought from WHSmith in
the UK.
TIA, Jase.
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Download this AVI info tool: http://avicodec.duby.info/
Find out what the video bit rate is and how the audio is
encoded.
Match this info against other files and get an idea of what
encoding behaves how on your player.
Generally speaking, the LiteOn 2001 & the Philips DVP642 play
most divx/xvid-MP3 encodings well, but by no means all. And the
ways in which they fail, or stutter, or freeze, etc. varies
widely.
Very low video bit rates and VBR audio can be a problem, older
codecs (at the time of encoding) can be a problem, and some
features of the encoders can not be played back at all.
Don't overlook media as a problem. If the DVD media reader has
to do recovery on the file, it will appear to hang and the video
may freeze while the audio keeps playing or not. As these are
NOT hard read errors (or, if they are, are being discarded by
the reader after n retries) it's difficult to determine if the
problem is media without retesting on the PC - which may or may
not have a better reader :-(
BJ |
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Jason
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Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:25 am Post subject:
Re: Divx & Xvid |
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"Billy Joe" <see.sig@invalid.org> wrote in news:j5mdnYGKhdmi8XzcRVn-
1g@adelphia.com:
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Jason wrote:
I've just bought a Divx compatible DVD player & burned some
Xvid encoded movies to a DVD, the movies play OK but they
slow down every 10 seconds or so for a short period. It's a
little anoying but I'm wondering if the problem lies with the
fact the movies are Xvid rather than Divx, I don't have any
Divx files to check at the moment, does anyone have an idea?
BTW the player is a Skyworth 3650, bought from WHSmith in
the UK.
TIA, Jase.
Download this AVI info tool: http://avicodec.duby.info/
Find out what the video bit rate is and how the audio is
encoded.
Match this info against other files and get an idea of what
encoding behaves how on your player.
Generally speaking, the LiteOn 2001 & the Philips DVP642 play
most divx/xvid-MP3 encodings well, but by no means all. And the
ways in which they fail, or stutter, or freeze, etc. varies
widely.
Very low video bit rates and VBR audio can be a problem, older
codecs (at the time of encoding) can be a problem, and some
features of the encoders can not be played back at all.
Don't overlook media as a problem. If the DVD media reader has
to do recovery on the file, it will appear to hang and the video
may freeze while the audio keeps playing or not. As these are
NOT hard read errors (or, if they are, are being discarded by
the reader after n retries) it's difficult to determine if the
problem is media without retesting on the PC - which may or may
not have a better reader :-(
BJ
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Thanks for the great advice, I've already got GSpot to give me the bit
rates & audio encoding so I will try & find a pattern as to what plays well
& what doesn't. I'm using DVD-RW media but I don't know if this could be a
contributing factor, in the mean time I can use DVD2VCD to convert the AVIs
to VIDEO_TS files & burn them as a DVD, it just takes 5-7 hours to
complete!
Cheers, Jase. |
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Steve
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Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject:
Re: Divx & Xvid |
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"Jason" <spamspamspam@spanishinquisition.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Xns95D9AFB2F498Dspamspamspamspanishi@140.99.99.130...
| Quote: | I've just bought a Divx compatible DVD player & burned some Xvid encoded
movies to a DVD, the movies play OK but they slow down every 10 seconds or
so for a short period. It's a little anoying but I'm wondering if the
problem lies with the fact the movies are Xvid rather than Divx, I don't
have any Divx files to check at the moment, does anyone have an idea? BTW
the player is a Skyworth 3650, bought from WHSmith in the UK.
TIA, Jase.
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I have a Yamada player and had the same problem with some XVID files,this
tool you can download here http://divx.ppccool.com/ makes it really easy to
re-encode any avi to Divx 5 which plays great on my player.and if the file
has AC3 sound you can leave the audio intact. |
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